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Publication date: 1 February 2006

Jing‐li Fu, Li‐qun Chen and Xiang‐wei Chen

In this letter, based on the infinitesimal transformations with respect to the generalized coordinates and generalized momentums, we obtain the definition, determining equations…

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Abstract

In this letter, based on the infinitesimal transformations with respect to the generalized coordinates and generalized momentums, we obtain the definition, determining equations and structure equation of the momentum‐dependent symmetry for the systems. This study directly leads to the non‐ Noether type conserved quantity for the systems. Further we also give the inverse issue of the momentum‐dependent symmetries of the systems. However, a theory of momentum‐dependent symmetries of the nonconservative Hamiltonian systems is established. Finally, an example is discussed to illustrate the results.

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Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, vol. 2 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1573-6105

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Article
Publication date: 1 August 2006

Fakhar Kamran, Chen Zu‐Chi, Ji Xiaoda and Yi Cheng

Providing a much easier (direct) approach to calculate the Lie point symmetries of (3 + 1) unsteady Navier‐Stokes equations for viscous, incompressible flow in cylindrical polar…

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Purpose

Providing a much easier (direct) approach to calculate the Lie point symmetries of (3 + 1) unsteady Navier‐Stokes equations for viscous, incompressible flow in cylindrical polar coordinates.

Design/methodology/approach

Lie group theory, is applied to the equations of motion. Symmetries obtained through a direct approach are then used to reduce (3 + 1) Navier‐Stokes system to a system of ordinary differential equations.

Findings

We observed that the approach applied here to calculate the symmetries of the group is entirely straightforward and involves less calculation as compared to the computer programs such as LIE, Symmgrp.max (MACSYMA) or other symbolic manipulation systems. Further, results obtained here will be practical and useful in comprehending the fluid flow behavior.

Research limitations/implications

We only obtained the exact solution through basic transformations (translation and scaling). The similarity reduction through other subalgebras (finite and infinite dimensions) can be used to explore more facts about the Navier‐Stokes equations.

Originality/value

Direct approach provided in this paper can be utilized to achieve symmetries of other physically important PDEs.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 23 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 5 January 2015

Ghodrat Ebadi, Aida Mojaver, Sachin Kumar and Anjan Biswas

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the integrability studies to the long-short wave equation that is studied in the context of shallow water waves. There are several…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the integrability studies to the long-short wave equation that is studied in the context of shallow water waves. There are several integration tools that are applied to obtain the soliton and other solutions to the equation. The integration techniques are traveling waves, exp-function method, G′/G-expansion method and several others.

Design/methodology/approach

The design of the paper is structured with an introduction to the model. First the traveling wave hypothesis approach leads to the waves of permanent form. This eventually leads to the formulation of other approaches that conforms to the expected results.

Findings

The findings are a spectrum of solutions that lead to the clearer understanding of the physical phenomena of long-short waves. There are several constraint conditions that fall out naturally from the solutions. These poses the restrictions for the existence of the soliton solutions.

Originality/value

The results are new and are sharp with Lie symmetry analysis and other advanced integration techniques in place. These lead to the connection between these integration approaches.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 25 October 2021

Liu-Qing Li, Yi-Tian Gao, Xin Yu, Gao-Fu Deng and Cui-Cui Ding

This paper aims to study the Gramian solutions and solitonic interactions of a (2 + 1)-dimensional Broer–Kaup–Kupershmidt (BKK) system, which models the nonlinear and dispersive…

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Purpose

This paper aims to study the Gramian solutions and solitonic interactions of a (2 + 1)-dimensional Broer–Kaup–Kupershmidt (BKK) system, which models the nonlinear and dispersive long gravity waves traveling along two horizontal directions in the shallow water of uniform depth.

Design/methodology/approach

Pfaffian technique is used to construct the Gramian solutions of the (2 + 1)-dimensional BKK system. Asymptotic analysis is applied on the two-soliton solutions to study the interaction properties.

Findings

N-soliton solutions in the Gramian with a real function ζ(y) of the (2 + 1)-dimensional BKK system are constructed and proved, where N is a positive integer and y is the scaled space variable. Conditions of elastic and inelastic interactions between the two solitons are revealed asymptotically. For the three and four solitons, elastic, inelastic interactions and soliton resonances are discussed graphically. Effect of the wave numbers, initial phases and ζ(y) on the solitonic interactions is also studied.

Originality/value

Shallow water waves are studied for the applications in environmental engineering and hydraulic engineering. This paper studies the shallow water waves through the Gramian solutions of a (2 + 1)-dimensional BKK system and provides some phenomena that have not been studied.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 32 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 5 March 2018

Sudao Bilige and Yanqing Han

The purpose of this paper is to study the applications of Lie symmetry method on the boundary value problem (BVP) for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in fluid…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study the applications of Lie symmetry method on the boundary value problem (BVP) for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in fluid mechanics.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors solved a BVP for nonlinear PDEs in fluid mechanics based on the effective combination of the symmetry, homotopy perturbation and Runge–Kutta methods.

Findings

First, the multi-parameter symmetry of the given BVP for nonlinear PDEs is determined based on differential characteristic set algorithm. Second, BVP for nonlinear PDEs is reduced to an initial value problem of the original differential equation by using the symmetry method. Finally, the approximate and numerical solutions of the initial value problem of the original differential equations are obtained using the homotopy perturbation and Runge–Kutta methods, respectively. By comparing the numerical solutions with the approximate solutions, the study verified that the approximate solutions converge to the numerical solutions.

Originality/value

The application of the Lie symmetry method in the BVP for nonlinear PDEs in fluid mechanics is an excellent and new topic for further research. In this paper, the authors solved BVP for nonlinear PDEs by using the Lie symmetry method. The study considered that the boundary conditions are the arbitrary functions Bi(x)(i = 1,2,3,4), which are determined according to the invariance of the boundary conditions under a multi-parameter Lie group of transformations. It is different from others’ research. In addition, this investigation will also effectively popularize the range of application and advance the efficiency of the Lie symmetry method.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 28 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 17 June 2020

Gangwei Wang and Abdul-Majid Wazwaz

The purpose of this paper is to concern with introducing symmetry analysis to the extended Sakovich equation.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to concern with introducing symmetry analysis to the extended Sakovich equation.

Design/methodology/approach

The newly developed Sakovich equation has been handled by using the Lie symmetries via using the Lie group method.

Findings

The developed extended Sakovich model exhibit symmetries and invariant solutions.

Research limitations/implications

The present study is to address the two main motivations: the study of symmetry analysis and the study of soliton solutions of the extended Sakovich equation.

Practical implications

The work introduces symmetry analysis to the Painlevé-integrable extended Sakovich equation.

Social implications

The work presents useful symmetry algorithms for handling new integrable equations.

Originality/value

The paper presents an original work with symmetry analysis and shows useful findings.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 31 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 29 July 2014

Buhe Eerdun, Qiqige Eerdun, Bala Huhe, Chaolu Temuer and Jing-Yu Wang

The purpose of this paper is to consider a steady two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) Falkner-Skan boundary layer flow of an incompressible viscous electrically fluid over…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to consider a steady two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) Falkner-Skan boundary layer flow of an incompressible viscous electrically fluid over a permeable wall in the presence of a magnetic field.

Design/methodology/approach

The governing equations of MHD Falkner-Skan flow are transformed into an initial values problem of an ordinary differential equation using the Lie symmetry method which are then solved by He's variational iteration method with He's polynomials.

Findings

The approximate solution is compared with the known solution using the diagonal Pad’e approximants and the geometrical behavior for the values of various parameters. The results reveal the reliability and validity of the present work, and this combinational method can be applied to other nonlinear boundary layer flow problems.

Originality/value

In this paper, an approximate analytical solution of the MHD Falkner-Skan flow problem is obtained by combining the Lie symmetry method with the variational iteration method and He's polynomials.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 24 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 5 June 2017

Ram Jiwari, Vikas Kumar, Ram Karan and Ali Saleh Alshomrani

This paper aims to deal with two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) Falkner–Skan boundary layer flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid over a…

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Purpose

This paper aims to deal with two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) Falkner–Skan boundary layer flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid over a permeable wall in the presence of a magnetic field.

Design/methodology/approach

Using the Lie group approach, the Lie algebra of infinitesimal generators of equivalence transformations is constructed for the equation under consideration. Using these suitable similarity transformations, the governing partial differential equations are reduced to linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Further, Haar wavelet approach is applied to the reduced ODE under the subalgebra 4.1 for constructing numerical solutions of the flow problem.

Findings

A new type of solutions was obtained of the MHD Falkner–Skan boundary layer flow problem using the Haar wavelet quasilinearization approach via Lie symmetric analysis.

Originality/value

To find a solution for the MHD Falkner–Skan boundary layer flow problem using the Haar wavelet quasilinearization approach via Lie symmetric analysis is a new approach for fluid problems.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 27 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 7 May 2021

Sachin Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Gupta and Pinki Kumari

This study aims to find the symmetries and conservation laws of a new Painlevé integrable Broer-Kaup (BK) system with variable coefficients. This system is an extension of…

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Purpose

This study aims to find the symmetries and conservation laws of a new Painlevé integrable Broer-Kaup (BK) system with variable coefficients. This system is an extension of dispersive long wave equations. As the system is generalized and new, it is essential to explore some of its possible aspects such as conservation laws, symmetries, Painleve integrability, etc.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper opted for an exploratory study of a new Painleve integrable BK system with variable coefficients. Some analytic solutions are obtained by Lie classical method. Then the conservation laws are derived by multiplier method.

Findings

This paper presents a complete set of point symmetries without any restrictions on choices of coefficients, which subsequently yield analytic solutions of the series and solitary waves. Next, the authors derive every admitted non-trivial conservation law that emerges from multipliers.

Research limitations/implications

The authors have found that the considered system is likely to be integrable. So some other aspects such as Lax pair integrability, solitonic behavior and Backlund transformation can be analyzed to check the complete integrability further.

Practical implications

The authors develop a time-dependent Painleve integrable long water wave system. The model represents more specific data than the constant system. The authors presented analytic solutions and conservation laws.

Originality/value

The new time-dependent Painleve integrable long water wave system features some interesting results on symmetries and conservation laws.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 31 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 4 December 2018

Kang Xiaorong and Xian Daquan

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the homoclinic breathe-wave solutions and the singular periodic solutions for (2 + 1)-dimensional generalized shallow water wave (GSWW…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the homoclinic breathe-wave solutions and the singular periodic solutions for (2 + 1)-dimensional generalized shallow water wave (GSWW) equation.

Design/methodology/approach

The Hirota bilinear method, the Lie symmetry method and the non-Lie symmetry method are applied to the (2 + 1)D GSWW equation.

Findings

A reduced (1 + 1)D potential KdV equation can be derived, and its soliton solutions are also presented.

Research limitations/implications

As a typical nonlinear evolution equation, some dynamical behaviors are also discussed.

Originality/value

These results are very useful for investigating some localized geometry structures of dynamical behaviors and enriching dynamical features of solutions for the higher dimensional systems.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 29 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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